Hangul Final Review 1
Hangul Final Review 1
Hangul Final Review 1
Grammar
Characteristics of Hangul
Double Vowels
Batchim(=Final Consonants)
Key Points
Rule One: Lenition - beginning with an ㅇ (이응) and sees that the
previous syllable has a batchim, it will steal it and use it as its own
initial.
같이 gachi 가치 "together"
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Hangul, the Korean alphabet.
In this lesson, we’ll stop learning the writing system and begin using it!
You will learn a lot of important Korean phrases that you’ll find
yourself using all the time! Let’s see how many you can read. Are you
ready?
Okay. Here is the first phrase. How would you read this one? Let me
give you three seconds.
Did you read it? It is read 먹따(meok-dda) and it means ‘to eat.’ Did you
get it right? If not, you may have forgotten about the batchim rule
named ‘Fortis’? When ㄱ, ㄷ or ㅂ is in the batchim position, like ㄱ of 먹,
the next consonant can be doubled. So 다 (da) becomes 따. (dda) 먹다
With the verb 먹다(to eat) and this noun 밥(rice), you can say ‘to eat
rice’ in Korean.
Unlike Engilsh, you say the noun before verb. You also need a special
particle, seen here. Can you read it? It’s 을 and it marks the noun as an
object to the verb. 밥 is the object of the verb 먹다 to eat, so you should
add the particle 을 after to the noun 밥.
But as you can see, there’s no word spacing between 밥 and 을. Then
how do you read them all together. Let me give you three seconds to
read it.
All together, you can say 밥을 먹다. This means ‘to eat rice.’
When the object noun doesn’t have batchim, you can use the particle
를 instead such as 나를 meaning “me”.
And let’s take a look at one more word. Can you read this one? It may
be difficult, but let’s try to read it step by step.
First, 예술. If you read 예 slowly, it becomes 이에. And faster again? 예.
예술 means ‘art’
And next one, 의. Let’s say 으 이 one by one, and read it fast 의. It
means ‘of’ But unlike English, the noun is before 의 so 예술의 means
‘something of art’.
Then let’s check the next noun. 전당. It’s easy right? It means hall. So
예술의 전당 means ‘hall of the art’ or ‘art hall’. Let’s read it one more
time. 예술의 전당. But when 의 is used as particle, it is usually read as 에
(e) because it’s easier to say.
예술의 “전당"
Then what about the last one? 에서. (eseo) It’s the place marking
particle like ‘at’ or ‘in’ in English. So 예술의 전당에서 means ‘at the art
hall’. If you keep reading this phrase again and again, you would be a
master of doubled vowels.
예술의 전당"에서"
나는
나 means ‘I’ and 는 is the particle making it the subject.
은영은
And now it’s your turn. Can you write your name in Hangul? Remember
that the subject marking particle is 은 if your name has a bat-chim and
는 if it ends in a vowel sound.
Alright! You have reached the end of Hana Hana Hangul and made an
important step toward learning Korean! But your Korean journey has
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